Sean Gallagher is about as useful to Irish society as the cartoon behind his picture and his presidential policies had the same substance as the sugary drip he is sucking.

RTE is the victim of a political scam artist who sold his story (for how much?) to the Sindo. This chicken (shit) farmer who tried to scam nearly 60,000 Euro is now trying to scam the public. It is all a big ball of smoke.

Just like when they had the Liam-Lawlor-with-a-prostitute story, the Sindo thought they were on to a good thing.

But they got it wrong and they will keep getting it wrong because in the Sindo right-wing propaganda comes first - look at the sneaky anti-Michael D Higgins story at the top right of the Sindo page. Typically, none to subtle.

Fianna fail of course are in like a shot backing their (unofficial) candiate, Gallagher. They will get egg on their face too.

See also (and listen to the AUDIO):
Hysteria in Sunday Independent on Sean Gallagher RTE-tweet story
The unofficial Fianna Fail (envelope) candidate was going down anywayhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/101522

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Fine Gael minister Leo Varadkar on RTE 'liberal bias' - News at One Radio One 12th March 2012.

Wants all callers to programmes 'checked' - call the Gestapo (or expand the duties of the new ministry of the Internet). He thinks RTE coverage of where US Republican candidate Mitt Romney's money coming from not fair, because no reference to where Barak Obama's is from - but the coverage was on the Republican Party primaries in the US.

And so the witch hunt begins - blue shirts will link up with FFers to try and re-shape the media agenda, dumb down RTE and create space for Fox news type right wing hysteria, all in the name of 'balance'. The discussion is designed to condition RTE. Sunday Independent story all part of the scenario.

By blowing this story up here you're no different from the sindo. And if we fall for it we're just as stupid as the sindo buying audience.

this is yet another stupid gallagher distraction thread which should be locked. Read the sindo if you want to read crap about sean gallagher. read indy if you want to read about real stuff we should be paying attention to.

So, so-called 'indyfan', you want the story 'locked' off so we can't consider the assault on free speech that the Gallagher story represents. Because the establishment media cover it, that means the story is not important, then why do they cover it?

I'm sure the Sindo would agree with you. Don't criticise the Sindo here. Ignore it and let it get on with communicating with hundreds of thousands each week without any critical comment.

"Because the establishment media cover it, that means the story is not important, then why do they cover it? "

They cover it to distract the public and fill column inches without having to cover real stories that matter. Its just bread and circuses. A distraction from other more pressing matters. Who cares about gallagher. Why are we wasting our valuable resources and energy talking about this non entity? Thats my point. Not that we should not criticise bias in the media.

This issue is an important element in the for want of a better term, 'class war' and the hustle for hegemony by the billionaire controlled media.

O 'Reilly and O' Brien are tracking the Gallagher 'story' closely. Anything that will undermine publicly owned (for all of it's flaws) broadcasting, is in their cross-hairs.

A few weeks back O'Brien's multi million euro loss maker Newstalk, lashed out a lot of dough on full page advertisements in the papers lacerating RTE's 'bogus tweet'.

Indymedia readers will not be surprised that the same outfit dish out mountains of lies, (even more so than RTE) on "social welfare fraud" and by the way, no one takes them to task on it. That may change. The mass media, whether we like it or not can make or breakk issues by distortion, occlusion or whatever it takes, Rossport is a perfect example and of course RTE is in on that one big time as well. OBrien and co would love a Fox type effort in situ here.

Control the story and its flow and you set and shape the agenda. I know that is ABC stuff but it often seems to get lost on activists who work away a lot of the time it seems, effectively in a bubble.

Plenty of distraction about sure is not that the name of the game, bread and circuses and all that lark, but you get a private monopoly effectively running the show and as the song goes "Baby, you ain't seen nothi'n yet".

I am not really concerned whether Gallagher is left, right, or centre. He is entitled to his views, as are his critics and supporters.

None of this gets around the disturbing allegation that employees of the taxpayer-supported public-service broadcaster have been engineering controversy and manipulating what appears on this programme. It needs to be investigated to see whether these allegations are true, and if so, to recommend safeguards to protect the integrety and impartiality of RTE from the political sympathies of its own employees.

RTE is not the Independent nor Indymedia - neither of which are public service media, and whose respective biases are manifest. RTE is a public service paid for by public money. And, by the way,there IS a perception that RTE promotes social values which are more liberal than that of the political centre and the political sympathies of the majority of our population. On the other hand, its commentary and coverage on the economy is generally quite conservative and supportive of the economic orthodoxy. It is no co-incidence that recent scandals in RTE have arisen where reporters with strong views and preconceptions were allowed pursue their personal hobby-horses without adequate oversight or editorial scrutiny.

I make this contribution knowing that Indymedia always welcomes diverse viewpoints.

" On the other hand, its commentary and coverage on the economy is generally quite conservative and supportive of the economic orthodoxy."

which is most alarming and means that FG have had way too smooth a ride giving away billions of our money to bondholders, imposing crushing austerity, eviscerating services and rolling over so the EU masters can scratch their political tummies.

"RTE is not the Independent nor Indymedia - neither of which are public service media, and whose respective biases are manifest."

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Where is the acknowledgement by the Sunday Independent that their story last week promoting a conman was a dud? Nowhere, because it is edited by a political conwoman, Anne Harris. It is half run by Eoghan Harris, who today launches his usual ludicrous defence of censorship of RTE under Section 31 of the Bradcasting Act and, as usual, witch-hunts RTE staff. The paper is given over to another anti-RTE fest this week.